When H.I.S. Mobile’s Strange SIM product hit the market brazenly hijacking iOS Enterprise Certificates without Apple immediately revoking them, you knew it was only a matter of time before somebody […]
Mobile Payments
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of TAP
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile >Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]
Apple Pay Suica - iPhone
Unbundled World
Tim Cook on the 1Q 2019 iPhone sales decline in Japan: In Japan, iPhone purchases were traditionally subsidized, bundled with carrier contracts. Today, local regulations have significantly restricted those subsidies […]
Apple
iOS 12.2 beta warning for Suica users
Just a friendly word of advice for Apple Pay Suica users who are thinking about trying the iOS 12.2 beta: don’t. Design tweaks have rearranged and hidden some important functions […]
Apple - iPhone
SoftBank Launching iPhone XR Happy Price Campaign January 30
It looks like Apple is working with Japanese carriers to drum up iPhone XR sales. Docomo already issued a limited iPhone XR discount campaign in December aimed mainly at carrier […]
Apple Pay Suica - Suica - Transit
JR East Reserve Seat Ticket Machines Going Cashless
2019 looks to be a year of change and going cashless. JR East is swapping out old reserve seat ticket machines with new ones that only take credit cards and […]